Alberta referendum, Carney’s wealthy backers among top stories of 2025

It’s been a busy year, including a general election, several by-elections, and trade breakdowns with Canada’s closest ally.

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It’s been a busy year, including a general election, several by-elections, and trade breakdowns with Canada’s closest ally. Canadians continue to choose True North as their go-to independent news source.

Our readers tuned in to True North to bypass the biased narratives and pro-establishment spin inherent in Canada’s government-funded legacy media.

In 2025, Canadians turned to Juno News on Substack to read True North’s exclusive reporting and top stories. Whether they wanted to get the most up-to-date information on Alberta’s independence movement, attacks on free expression, or indoctrination of Liberal elites in academia, True North delivered.

Using analytics from Juno News’ Substack website, which publishes True North’s news articles, to determine which stories got the most attention, True North has compiled a list of the top five most-viewed stories of the year.

5. CBC bragged about having a conservative podcast taken off of YouTube

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation launched an “investigation” into a popular YouTube channel focused on conservative content after the channel garnered nearly 70 million views during the 2025 federal election.

Following the investigation into the account, Real Talk Politiks said it was outperforming mainstream outlets, including CBC, in the run-up to election day. The public broadcaster bragged about having the channel taken off the video-streaming platform.

YouTube said that the termination was due to violations of policies on spam, scams and deceptive practices, but did not specify what violations the channel committed. The channel’s creator disputed that claim, calling the takedown politically motivated.

CBC’s investigation focused on the channel’s use of AI voiceovers in the videos. The broadcaster described the format as a form of “content farming,” a term used to describe low-quality material produced in mass quantities to provoke engagement.

The channel owners denied intentionally promoting disinformation with AI. The timing has raised questions about whether the CBC crossed a line by pressuring a private platform to act against a competitor in the political media field.

4. An Ontario school board caught teaching staff that the term “family” was “racist.”

True North obtained internal training materials that were directed to Waterloo Region District School Board staff, who were being trained that the word “family” is a harmful concept rooted in white supremacy.

The training materials delivered to staff at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation assert that terms like “objectivity,” “perfectionism,” and “worship of the written word” are hallmarks of “Whiteness” and upholding white supremacy.

Quoting from Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Laura Mae Lindo, one slide stated that “biases are the socialized teachings of the white culture,” and “we use key words and phrases to promote the dominant culture.” One of the offensive words in question is “family,” which is said to be harmful to racialized students because it implies male authority, demands obedience without question, and erodes personal boundaries by “prioritizing the family’s needs.”

Another slide asserts that asking for evidence for claims of racism or acknowledging racism toward white people is a “characteristic of whiteness” that must be dismantled.

The source who provided the materials questioned whether the claims made in the training reflected staff views, saying that teachers just want to “get on with their jobs.”

3. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s leadership campaign was largely backed by rich neighbourhoods

The official Liberal Party of Canada leadership results show that Mark Carney’s biggest backers were those who were positioned to be immune to the economic hardships of the last decade.

The top 20 ridings that delivered the most votes for Carney in his landslide victory as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s replacement are home to multimillion-dollar estates, private schools, and well-connected insiders — communities which are likely insulated from unemployment and inflation caused by the Liberals’ economic policies.

Carney’s strongest support came from exclusive luxury communities like Toronto’s Rosedale, Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Park, and Canada’s wealthiest municipality, West Vancouver.

2. Air Canada removed a man from a flight for wearing a Trudeau blackface shirt

After complaints from the cabin crew of an Air Canada flight, a Nova Scotia man was removed from the flight for wearing a shirt featuring an image of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in blackface.

During a Vancouver-bound flight from Edmonton on July 8, 62-year-old Daniel Greaves was sitting in his seat, waiting for the aircraft to leave the tarmac, when he was first notified of a problem with his clothing. The crew said the shirt was “offensive.”

After some arguing with flight attendants about being thrown off the plane, Greaves, who flies frequently to and from his work in northern Alberta, was eventually handcuffed and slammed to the ground by RCMP officers.

1. Alberta’s independence group unveiled its separation referendum question

Following the election of a fourth consecutive Liberal government, this time under the globalist environmentalist Prime Minister Mark Carney, Alberta independence sentiment was at its highest point since 2019-20.

The separatist “Alberta Prosperity Project” unveiled the question it planned to put to Albertans in a citizen-initiated referendum to separate from Canada.

The question is: “Do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a Sovereign Country and cease to be a province of Canada?”

Despite initial court delays, the group is expected to begin collecting signatures in January 2026, thanks to changes implemented by the Alberta UCP in Bill 14, halting court challenges for unapproved citizens’ initiative applications.

General Counsel for the APP, Jeffrey Rath, told True North his group already has over 300,000 pledges to sign the petition, well above the 177,000 signatures required to be collected in 120 days.